Mecosta County MI Archives Biographies.....Blackmar, P. August 27, 1855 - 
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P. BLACKMAR, of the firm of Paul Blackmar & Co., dealers and manufacturers of 
lumber, shingles and lath, 

and pine-land dealers at Big Rapids, was born at Detroit, Aug. 27, 1855.  He 
is a son of Thomas S. and 

Mary E. (Williams) Blackmar.  His father was a prominent attorney of Detroit, 
where he located about 1850 

and opened a law office with wm. A. Moore, now an eminent member of the 
Michigan bar.  The senior Blackmar 

was Circuit Court Commissioner a long term of years, and died at Detroit in 
the fall of 1869.  The mother 

was a daughter of Prof. Geo. P. Williams, of Michigan University, where he 
held the first chair of 

Mathematics and Metaphysics, which he retained a long period, and was finally 
retird on half-pay.  Mrs. 

Blackmar died at Detroit, in 1864.

Mr. P. Blackmar obtained his elementary education at the public schools, 
cheifly at the Cass union school 

under Prof. Nicholas.  After the demise of his father, he went to Leavenworth, 
Kasn., and there studied 

and taught school.  He went thence to Mount Lincoln, Gray's Peak, and to the 
vicinity of Leadville, and 

was there engaged as a miner and in other occupations four years.  He returned 
to Detroit and entered the 

office of T. W. Palmer, and about the year 1878 had charge of the entire 
business of that gentleman, 

representing at that time one and a half million dollars.

The manufacturing firm of McGraft & Montgomery at Muskegon dissolved July 1, 
1882.  Mr. Blackmar bought an 

interest in the concern Jan. 1, 1881 and on the dissolution named, in 
connection with Martin Kelly of 

Grand Rapids, he commenced the purchase and sale of timber on the branches of 
the Musjegon.  T. W. Palmer, 

of Detroit, became interested in the enterprise in the fall of 1882, and 
during the ensuing winter the 

firm purchased and put in the river about twelve million feet of logs, a large 
proportion of which is 

beign sawed ar the old Tioga Mills, bought by Thomas S. Twe, of Hood, Gale & 
Co.  In the summer of 1883 

Mr. Blackmar purchased the claim of Mr. Kelly and is now managing the business 
alone: is also operating in 

the interest of Mr. Palmer.  The latter has, on the Muskegon and its 
tributaries near this point, sixty 

million feet of standing timber (pine).  The amount handled the current season 
will be twenty million feet 

of lumber, from ten to fifteen million feet of shingles and a large amount of 
lath.

Mr. Blackmar was married at Detroit, Sept. 9, 1879, to Georgia A., daughter of 
George and Ellen Rice, born 

Aug 18, 1855.  Mr. and Mrs. Blackmar have two sons, - Thomas P, born at 
Detroit, July 8, 1880, and William 

E., born at Muskegon, Jan 12, 1882.

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1883 Portrait & Bio Album of Mecosta Co.

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